James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins is releasing a solo album called Look to the Sky in March. Via TwentyFourBit

Geoff Barrow from Portishead is moving beyond Portishead and Beak> with a new project called Quakers, a crowd sourced hip hop project in which Barrows posted tracks online, people rapped over them, and sent them back. No less than 41 tracks made the cut, and it comes out on Stones Throw Records. Via BPM

Merchandising! IFC's show Portlandia will release a book: Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors later this year with the same parody format as the show, but used on Portland places, styled after a travel guide. Via Rolling Stone